My best friend and I both lost children within six months of each other and now we don't know how to be together. Every conversation feels like we're competing in some horrible Olympics of grief, and the friendship that sustained us through everything else is crumbling under the weight of losses too big for words.
More people experience this than they realize.
Sometimes shared suffering divides rather than unites, creating a terrible arithmetic where pain plus pain equals isolation.
“Where Are You with The death of a child — the unnatural loss?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.